India, Nov. 24 -- If you stand six feet eight inches tall in your bowling shoes, there's not a lot you'd be jealous about, right?

Wrong.

Marco Jansen towers physically above all teammates and opponents in Test cricket currently, but the South African quick admitted to being 'slightly jealous' of guys shorter than him. His reason? From the same length from where the rest hit the top of the stumps, Jansen invariably gets the ball to bounce above them, depriving him of numerous bowleds and leg befores.

But offer him a surface with bounce and carry, like the one at the ACA Stadium in Guwahati, and it's the likes of new-ball comrade Wiaan Mulder and the opposing pace grouping of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj who don the jealousy garb. ...